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Thunderstorm moving through south of Rock Springs. Needs a little work on the ground to match up exposure levels, but who knows when I'll get to that.
Spectacular thunderstorms that occurred on Saturday morning that I have not experienced anything like it outside my home.
At 6:28pm on 7-21-2013 this thunderstorm prompted warnings for southeastern Douglas County and eastern Sarpy County. Large diameter hail, gusty winds up to 60-mph, and torrential rains were being experienced in Bellevue, Nebraska. The cumulonimbus cloud is so big it pushes the limits of my little Olympus!
The cloud resembles an explosion or smoke cloud from a massive fire!
Once again, I was rained out of a sunrise. It was a real gully-washer of a thunderstorm this time. It’s hard to shoot pictures in a cloud with blowing rain. And I don’t shoot in lightning.
I didn’t feel much like walking in the rain either, once the worst of the storm passed. So I gave up and headed home. About halfway down the mountain, I noticed there were impromptu waterfalls about every hundred yards. I pulled over at a pullout and photographed one — about 20 feet off the road.
I call them “impromptu” but they’ve been there a long time. This one runs into a culvert (and then under the highway) built by the CCC. So that’s at least 80 years ago. There’s only a few inches of topsoil, anywhere on the mountain, before you get down to rock. The water has to go somewhere. And it goes there in a hurry. These will be dry again in a day or so.
Somewhere near the border of Monte Sano State Park and the Monte Sano Nature Preserve (part of the Land Trust of North Alabama) along the Bankhead Parkway in Huntsville, Alabama.
Nikon D7200 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR
18mm
F16@1.6 seconds
ISO 400
White Balance on Flash
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Minolta CLE + Canon screw mount 50/f1.8. Expired Kodak Gold 200. Lab scanned, minimal editing in ACDSee Pro 2.5.
Taken at front porch facing a thick LA thunderstorm-covered late afternoon a bit back in July '10.
It took me about 3 hours to actually catch about 3 lightnings in this thunderstorm. This is the best one since it´s the only one where parts of the lightning are occluded by that more narrow cloud.
These storms (there were several in a row) unleashed an unheard-of amount of energy. Just in a 10-mile radius in Chicago, there were over 90,000 lightning strikes; and those were only those that hit the ground! They were averaging 15 per second. Torrential rains, winds and tornadoes in just a few hours. Who says the midwest is dull!
Actually I wanted to catch some lightning strikes, but the thunderstorm decided to stay in safe distance. But I like these two impressions of the sky as well, even without lightning.
Gewitterhimmel II
Eigentlich wollte ich gestern Blitze "fangen", das eigentliche Gewitter war jedoch zu weit weg. Aber diese beiden Himmelseindrücke finde ich auch nicht so schlecht.